ansible / ansible.builtin / v2.9.27 / module / win_lineinfile Ensure a particular line is in a file, or replace an existing line using a back-referenced regular expression | "added in version" 2.0 of ansible.builtin" Authors: Brian Lloyd (@brianlloyd) preview | supported by communityansible.builtin.win_lineinfile (v2.9.27) — module
pip
Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27
This module will search a file for a line, and ensure that it is present or absent.
This is primarily useful when you want to change a single line in a file only.
# Before Ansible 2.3, option 'dest', 'destfile' or 'name' was used instead of 'path' - name: Insert path without converting \r\n win_lineinfile: path: c:\file.txt line: c:\return\new
- win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\example.conf regex: '^name=' line: 'name=JohnDoe'
- win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\example.conf regex: '^name=' state: absent
- win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\example.conf regex: '^127\.0\.0\.1' line: '127.0.0.1 localhost'
- win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\httpd.conf regex: '^Listen ' insertafter: '^#Listen ' line: Listen 8080
- win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\services regex: '^# port for http' insertbefore: '^www.*80/tcp' line: '# port for http by default'
- name: Create file if it doesn't exist with a specific encoding win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\utf16.txt create: yes encoding: utf-16 line: This is a utf-16 encoded file
- name: Add a line to a file and ensure the resulting file uses unix line separators win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\testfile.txt line: Line added to file newline: unix
- name: Update a line using backrefs win_lineinfile: path: C:\Temp\example.conf backrefs: yes regex: '(^name=)' line: '$1JohnDoe'
line: description: - Required for C(state=present). The line to insert/replace into the file. If C(backrefs) is set, may contain backreferences that will get expanded with the C(regexp) capture groups if the regexp matches. - Be aware that the line is processed first on the controller and thus is dependent on yaml quoting rules. Any double quoted line will have control characters, such as '\r\n', expanded. To print such characters literally, use single or no quotes. type: str path: aliases: - dest - destfile - name description: - The path of the file to modify. - Note that the Windows path delimiter C(\) must be escaped as C(\\) when the line is double quoted. - Before Ansible 2.3 this option was only usable as I(dest), I(destfile) and I(name). required: true type: path regex: aliases: - regexp description: - The regular expression to look for in every line of the file. For C(state=present), the pattern to replace if found; only the last line found will be replaced. For C(state=absent), the pattern of the line to remove. Uses .NET compatible regular expressions; see U(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs600312%28v=vs.110%29.aspx). state: choices: - absent - present default: present description: - Whether the line should be there or not. type: str backup: default: false description: - Determine whether a backup should be created. - When set to C(yes), create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly. type: bool create: default: false description: - Used with C(state=present). If specified, the file will be created if it does not already exist. By default it will fail if the file is missing. type: bool newline: choices: - unix - windows default: windows description: - Specifies the line separator style to use for the modified file. This defaults to the windows line separator (C(\r\n)). Note that the indicated line separator will be used for file output regardless of the original line separator that appears in the input file. type: str backrefs: default: false description: - Used with C(state=present). If set, line can contain backreferences (both positional and named) that will get populated if the C(regexp) matches. This flag changes the operation of the module slightly; C(insertbefore) and C(insertafter) will be ignored, and if the C(regexp) doesn't match anywhere in the file, the file will be left unchanged. - If the C(regexp) does match, the last matching line will be replaced by the expanded line parameter. type: bool encoding: default: auto description: - Specifies the encoding of the source text file to operate on (and thus what the output encoding will be). The default of C(auto) will cause the module to auto-detect the encoding of the source file and ensure that the modified file is written with the same encoding. - An explicit encoding can be passed as a string that is a valid value to pass to the .NET framework System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding() method - see U(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding%28v=vs.110%29.aspx). - This is mostly useful with C(create=yes) if you want to create a new file with a specific encoding. If C(create=yes) is specified without a specific encoding, the default encoding (UTF-8, no BOM) will be used. type: str validate: description: - Validation to run before copying into place. Use %s in the command to indicate the current file to validate. - The command is passed securely so shell features like expansion and pipes won't work. type: str insertafter: choices: - EOF - '*regex*' default: EOF description: - Used with C(state=present). If specified, the line will be inserted after the last match of specified regular expression. A special value is available; C(EOF) for inserting the line at the end of the file. - If specified regular expression has no matches, EOF will be used instead. May not be used with C(backrefs). type: str insertbefore: choices: - BOF - '*regex*' description: - Used with C(state=present). If specified, the line will be inserted before the last match of specified regular expression. A value is available; C(BOF) for inserting the line at the beginning of the file. - If specified regular expression has no matches, the line will be inserted at the end of the file. May not be used with C(backrefs). type: str
backup: description: - Name of the backup file that was created. - This is now deprecated, use C(backup_file) instead. returned: if backup=yes sample: C:\Path\To\File.txt.11540.20150212-220915.bak type: str backup_file: description: Name of the backup file that was created. returned: if backup=yes sample: C:\Path\To\File.txt.11540.20150212-220915.bak type: str